Orange confidential: Plans for med school in Middletown advancing

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Mar 31, 2013 at 2:00 AM

A dozen medical students from Touro schools will start their core clerkships at Orange Regional Medical Center this summer — the first step in the medical education that will become part of the hospital's fabric when Touro opens a planned medical college at the former Horton Hospital campus in Middletown.

A dozen medical students from Touro schools will start their core clerkships at Orange Regional Medical Center this summer — the first step in the medical education that will become part of the hospital's fabric when Touro opens a planned medical college at the former Horton Hospital campus in Middletown.

Touro College is headquartered in New York City and operates a number of schools in the United States and abroad.

The core clerkship is the third year of medical school, when students rotate between different specialties.

The Middletown school is expected to get final educational approvals in May, said Ron Israelski, who is director of medical education at Orange Regional and who has been heavily involved in the medical school project.

Israelski said Orange Regional hopes to start graduate residency programs in emergency room medicine, internal medicine and surgery in 2015. If the college opens in August 2014 as planned, 2016 will be the first year students trained in Middletown would be doing their core clerkships in local hospitals.

Nathan Brown

The Republican campaign team to run in this year's Town of Deerpark election has emerged.

The members of "Team Deerpark 2013" officially announced their intention to run for re-election March 16, and the faces will be familiar to many in the town.

In a news release, the team said it wants to continue to do more to attract economic development to the town and make government operations more cost efficient and effective.

All members were endorsed by the Town of Deerpark Republican Committee and will seek the endorsements from the Conservative and Independence parties. The election is Nov. 5.

James Nani

Finishing a noticeable third in a race for two trustee seats, Chris Spear will get to serve on the Village of Washingtonville Board anyway.

Washingtonville officials are expected to announce Spear's appointment to fill a vacancy on the board created when trustee Dave Heintz, who has one more year left of his term as trustee, takes the reins as mayor Monday.

Spear has been a regular attendant at Village Board meetings of late, and he's talked about wanting to put Washingtonville on a better footing than it had been under outgoing Mayor Kevin Hudson.

In other news, Hudson has handed in the emergency lights he purchased with village money to respond to emergencies in the village, thus signaling the ex-mayor's departure from office.

He still is a key figure in local politics, however. As a central figure in the Town of Blooming Grove's Conservative Committee, he has considerable clout in determining which candidates get the Conservative Party nod in future elections.

John Sullivan

The Monroe Police Department announced last week they've installed several surveillance video cameras at key locations throughout the village that they'll monitor at police headquarters.

The cameras already have proved to be an asset by helping them catch crimes in progress and also captured some "valuable investigative evidence," police said.

Money for the cameras came from a federal grant that covered the cost of equipment and installation. Additional cameras were added after they sold unclaimed property in an auction, according to police.

The Monroe Police Department also teamed up last week with the Monroe-Woodbury School District recently to install several network surveillance cameras throughout each school in the district.

The district purchased and installed the cameras in key school locations and provides police with network capabilities so they can monitor the cameras 24 hours a day.

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